HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Toledo Bending lompany reports all tbe business it can attend to. 

 Its plant is running full time and full capacity. The outlook is very 

 «ood. 



The Booth Column Company is working fifty-nine hours a week trying 

 to keep up with the orders which have practically swamped the concern 

 recently. There is a good local demand and a more than normal call 

 from all sections of the country. 



Business is good with the J. M. Skinner Bending Company which has 

 all the orders it can take care of. I^rices are good and the concern is 

 well titted out with stocks. 



The Toledo Carriage Woodwork Company reports a good line of orders 

 iind prospects for a busy season. The factory is operating at filU 

 capacity. 



The Keasey Pulley Company has been reorganized and the plant is 

 operating with a full force of men. This concern was shut down for a 

 year and a half. The new company purchased the patterns, castings, 

 machinery and tools of the old concern, .\bout 100 men are employed. 



-< INDIANAPOLIS > 



The Montgomery Hardwood Lumber lompany of Crawtordsville has 

 been dissolved. 



Lightning caused about $40,000 loss by fire at the mill and yard of the 

 -New Union Lumber Company at Jasonvillo on May 22. 



With $25,000 capilal the Union Lumber Company has been organized 

 and incoTporated here to conduct a general lumber business. Those in- 

 terested- in the company are Franklin Greenwood, G. H. Howenstein and 

 M. B. Wunder. 



The Indiana secretary of state has received notice of the dissolution 

 of the Ilcnry Brothers Lumber Company of Veedersburg. 



Pianos and piano players will be manufactured at Laporte by the 

 Orpheola Ci>mpany. which has been organized by E. O. Best, E. .1. Wergard 

 and B. B. Vedder. The company has been incorporated with $50,000 

 capital. 



The E. C. Atkins Memorial Association, consisting of employes of E. C. 

 Atkins & Co., decorated the graves of 122 former employes of the company 

 on Memorial Day. 



A veneer mill is to be leased in this city and a veneer mill plant built 

 at EdinbiUL'li by the newly organized W. T, Thompson Veneer Company, 



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which has been incorporated with $35,000 capital stock. Those interested 

 in the company are Bedna Young, Evansville ; R. E. Custinger, T. M. 

 Cutsinger and W. T. Thompson of Edinburgh. 



Employes of the National Casket Company were entertained at a 

 banquet and theater party by the company on the evening of May 26. 

 The banquet was held at the German House and was followed by a theater 

 party at the Murat Theater. 



Conditions are becoming normal in planing mills where employes have 

 been on strike for a closed shop since May 1. The places of most of the 

 strikers have been filled. About 700 carpenters were locked out for a 

 while by the contractors, when carpenters employed by contractors having 

 their own planing mills refused to use non union planing mill products. The 

 contractors have allowed the carpenters to return to work pending further 

 negotiations. 



=■< MEMPHIS >■- 



Weather conditions throughout this territory during the past fortnight 

 have been reasonably favorable for work in the woods. Heavy rains 

 occuri;ed about ten da.vs ago but since that the time the weather has 

 been dry and the raiufall has not materially interfered with logging 

 operations. The supply of timber in sight is good and lumber interests 

 here are of the opinion that they will be able to secure all the logs needed 

 for their plants. The overflow water has receded entirely and logging 

 operations have been resumed on both sides of the Mississippi in the low 

 lands where most of the timber lies. 



There has been some delay in the plans of Russe & Burgess. Inc., in 

 connection with the tearing down of their old mill and the beginning 

 of the construction of the new. It was expected that the old mill would 

 be torn down early in May but the firm has such a large supply of tim- 

 ber on hand that this was impossible. Mr, Burgess said recently that it 

 «-ouId take at least three weeks of double shift to take care of the tim- 

 ber on the yards and that the tearing down of the old mill would not 

 begin until about ,Iuly 1. .\1I of the timbers for the new mill have been 

 delivered but so far none of the machiner.v has been received. The mill 

 will have a capacity of between 4,"i,000 and 50,000 feet i)er day. It will 

 be equipped with a resaw and will be one of the most up-to-date plants 

 in Memphis. The firm will have its sawing done by a custom mill dur- 

 ing the time it is building the new plant. The latter will not be in 

 readiness for operation until early this fall. 



,T. H. Townshend, manager of the Southern Hardwood TralHc Bureau, 

 is in receipt of information from the Interstate Commerce Commission at 

 Washington that the hearing in the case of .lames E. Stark et al vs. the 

 Illinois CentraU et al which was set for June 12, has been postponed 

 uulil September. This case Involves a reduction in rates sought by the 

 Southern Hardwood Traflic Bureau on hardwood lumber shipments from 

 Memphis and other points south of this city on the Illinois Central sys- 

 tem, to Chicago, Ohio river crossings and other northern points. A rate 

 of fifteen cents per hundred pounds from Memphis to Chicago Is one of 

 the specific Items In the petition. Lumber exporters here have leai-ned 

 with regret of the failure of the steamship companies and the railroads 

 to reach an agreement at the conference recently held at Hot Springs, 

 Va.. looking to an ad.iustment of the through bill of lading controversy, 

 :ind the granting of free demurrage by the steamship companies at New 

 Orleans on export shipments of lumber over the west side lines. The 

 steamship companies have given notice that tlie agreement recentl.v en- 

 tered into governing these points will be abrogated June 23. It will be 

 necessary for tbe west side lines, however, to file tariffs with the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission, and the Southern Hardwood Traffic Bureau 

 is preparing to secure a hearing from the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion before this subject Is finally disposed of. .\ prominent exporter 

 here recently said that he believi-d the whole matter would be amicably 

 adjusted and it would be possible to handle export shipments of lumber 

 by way of New Orleans on through bills. He pointed out that the rail- 

 roads have been virtually forced by the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 to handle cotton shipments on through bills and that it is impracticable 

 for the carriers and the steamship companies to discriminate in favor 

 • ■f cotton and against lumber. 



The subject of annual contracts on export shipment« of lumber to 

 Liverpool, Amsterdam and other points has come up for consideration. 

 riie steamship companies have intimated that they will not enter into 

 nunual contracts another season. Exporters here, however, have made no 

 .llorts to close contracts for another year. The present ones do not 

 expire until September and it will probably be sometime .vet before they 

 take up the subject of a renewal of these contracts. They do not believe 

 that they will have any trouble in making arrangements that will be 

 i|Uite as satisfactory as those now in force. 



W; H. Kusse of Russe & Burgess Inc. has been named as chairman of 

 the foreign trade department of the Business Men's Club. Mr. Russe 

 has been prominently identified with the export lumber business here 

 for a number of years and is probably more familiar with trade condi- 

 tions abroad as affecting lumber and other commodities than any one 

 iu this city. 



The annual report of the Mempbls Ureight Bureau has recently been 

 made by L. R. Donelson, president." One of the features of this report 

 was the appeal on his part to the various business organizations to get 

 together and form a traflic bureau that would take care of all Interests, 

 lie thought this would be a very much better method than the present 



